Mary G Buck

Mary was a Southern Ute woman (Mouache or Caputa band)

The Southern Ute Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in southwestern Colorado, United States, near the northern New Mexico state line. Its territory consists of land from three counties; in descending order of surface area, they are La Plata, Archuleta, and Montezuma Counties. Today, the Mouache and Caputa bands comprise the Southern Ute Tribe, known as "Keepers of the River" and are headquartered in Ignacio, Colorado.

Map: Courtesy of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

Biography:
Mary was born to Julian Buck and an unknown partner in 1881 probably on the Southern Ute Reservation in southwestern Colorado. Her father appears to have died before June 30, 1905, as he is not in the Indians Census for that year and Mary shows up as a ward of her grandmother Pahose 'Sarah' Buck.

Mary was admitted to the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians on September 9, 1918, and died there only three months later on December 14, 1918. Mary is reported to have died of starvation and constipation according to asylum records according to "Vanished in Hiawatha" by Carla Joinson

Mary was buried in the Hiawatha Asylum Cemetery, tier 6, plot 31, according to a letter written by Dr. L.L. Culp to the commissioner of Indian Affairs following the closing of the asylum in December 1933.

Her profile is part of the The Canton Asylum One Place Study.

Research Notes:
-Mary Buck does not show up in Canton Asylum census reports, probably because she arrived in 1918 after the annual report in June and died before the next annual report in June 1919.
-based on Indian census Rolls her grandmother died between 1907 and 1910, which means that she was admitted to Canton by the Southern Ute Agency.
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Sources:

1903 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4K2J-CFPZ : Wed Oct 04 01:40:14 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary Mary G Buck, 1897, pg. 444/576, line 153-154, census of the Southern Ute Indians, Ingacio Sub Agency, Colorado

1904 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4KKJ-91T2 : Wed Oct 04 21:24:55 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary G Buck, 1897, pg. 492/576, line 165 (line 164 Julian Buck age 34 likely father?), census of the Southern Ute Indians, Ignacio Sub Agency, Colorado

1906 Jul 1 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4KXR-JCN2 : Wed Oct 04 23:14:45 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary G Buck, 1897, pg. 532/576, line 150, census of the Southern Ute Indians, Southern Ute Agency, Ignacio, Colorado

1907 Jul 1 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4KJF-3ZN2 : Fri Oct 06 08:58:04 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary G Buck, 1897, pg. 547/576, line 52, census of the Southern Ute Indians, Southern Ute Agency, Ignacio, Colorado

1910 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGJN-5X2L : Fri Oct 06 07:49:46 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary G Buck, 1910, pg. 31/323, line 50, census of the Southern Ute Indians, Southern Ute Agency, Colo.

1912 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4SMG-BFT2 : Wed Oct 04 09:42:38 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary G Buck, 1912, pg. 76/323, line 59 (21 years old = b. 1891), census of hte Southern Ute Indians, Southern Ute Agency. Col.

1914 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP3H-6L46 : Fri Oct 06 22:22:14 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary G Buck, pg. 123/323, line 61, census of the Southern Ute Indians, Souther Ute Agency, Colorado

1915 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGR7-1MV1 : Tue Oct 03 22:59:06 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary G Buck, pg. 147/323, line 61, census of teh Southern Ute Indians, Southern Ute Agency

1918 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:445R-673Z : Tue Oct 03 05:22:53 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary G Buck, 1918, pg. 218/323, line 62, census of the Southern Ute Indians, Southern Ute Agency

1918 Dec 14 - "South Dakota, Grave Registration Records, 1940-1941", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CYRJ-S2T2 : Fri Dec 15 06:48:02 UTC 2023), Entry for Mary Buck, Death 15 Dec 1918
Mary Buck
Death: Dec 14 1918
Burial: Canton, Lincoln, South Dakota, United States
Cemetery: Indian Asylum Cemetery
Block #: 1

1918 Dec 14 - Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14493686/mary-g-buck: accessed ), memorial page for Mary G Buck (unknown–14 Dec 1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14493686, citing Hiawatha Asylum Cemetery, Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota, USA; Maintained by Graveaddiction (contributor 46528400).

Hilton, M. (Ed.). (2023, July 10). Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians Historical Marker. Historical Marker. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=183486 Photo by Ruth VanSteenwyk, July 10, 2023, courtesy of HMdb.org

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